Historical City Quotes

#1. There's so many gay rappers ...
They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.

Chino XL

#2. I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Nicolas Berggruen

#3. The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. What are our lungs supposed to do?" I shouted. Shouted: "If they breathe fast they suffocate themselves from inner poisons; if they breathe slowly they suffocate from unbreathable air, from outraged things. But if they try to search for their own rhythm they perish from the mere search.

Franz Kafka

#5. No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.

Mark McGinty

#6. I know many writers who say that the memory of reading fairy tales is their first, and sometimes only, memory of rapture. I hope that this unpredictable, intense collection inspires you to read fairy tales-and then to read them again.

Kate Bernheimer

#7. Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?

Ahmad Ardalan

#8. Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain.

Lucy Foley

#9. He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Socrates

#10. In the hands of thinking humanity, the purpose of the tool of Divinity or Religion is not the service of bookish doctrines, but the realization of the self.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.

Tamer Hassan

#12. You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.

Tamara Hughes

#13. Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#14. I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.

Orhan Pamuk

#15. Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

Tamara Hughes

#16. It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.

Charles Emmerson

#17. The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

Shunryu Suzuki

#18. want to hang on to your

Max Lucado

#19. He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man's name.

Tamara Hughes

#20. I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling at St. Columbus High School before I went to Mayo College. Delhi, for me, is a historical city with all its beautiful monuments.

Ajay Mehta

#21. September 10, 2001. A storm is brewing in New York City. A clash is about to begin. Tempers will soon rise as historical conquests and slights are remembered and renewed on the eve of this fight between ancient and embittered foes. Yes, the Boston Red Sox are playing the New York Yankees.

Hugh Howey

#22. For the first day of your trip to Istanbul, you will be wandering around Sultanahmet, the historical peninsula and the old city of Istanbul. Here, you get to feast your eyes on a breathtaking collection of architectural marvels, such as the Hippodrome, Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia.

3 Day City Guides

#23. As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising.

F.C. Malby

#24. Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

Clare Boothe Luce